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Tag: Religion
Debra Green – Mountains or Fountains
My notes from this, the first talk in our 40 Days of Ivy DNA Series: RELEVANT. People are surprised when we as a church are normal rather than ‘religious’ Text – John 4- the samaritan woman at the well. 1) Jesus asked – ‘Will you give me a drink?’ This is a very controversial conversation for him to have at all. He’s showing us the type of Saviour he is. He’s speaking to her in her language, about her every day life and needs. Connects with the familiar. If we want to be relevant we need to offer and speak into what people need. Cf Breathe City Church in Stoke- their ‘When‘ ministry: giving clothes to the poor in the city. Thousands of clothing packages given. When we meet the felt needs of people, we’ll be relevant. We’re not relevant because the worship is great or the preaching is good: people outside of church are not even asking about that anyway! But if we help people and connect in people in prison, in debt, when we are marked by hospitality, […]
Why I believe – Part 3: The Crux of the matter
Many hundreds of thousands of crosses, but we only remember this one. Those who were dying usually shouted and swore and cursed those who put them there. Here’s what Jesus said: in Luke 23 – ‘Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.”
Gabe Lyons #cat10 New Generation Engagement
We have people all around us in churches but disconnected to what Christ wants to do through them. That gives us a great opportunity.
Alan and Debra Hirsch – UNTAMED at #Cat 10
Discipleship = offering my will back to God. The one God.
WE DO NOT HAVE COCKROACHES!
They might stumble in once, but if the service or food or hospitality is awful, they’ll not come back.
How to get men to love Church (part 1)
No doubt someone will tell me that your church is led by an all woman team, and that in the pastel coloured room a flower arranging, hymn singing crèche group at your church is packed full of hairy legged blokes in their twenties.
Diamond Geezers: Finances – It Pays To Think About Your Money.
…if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
Surprised by Joy
“..the hardest boiled of all the atheists I ever knew sat in my room on the other side of the fire and remarked that the evidence for the historicity of the Gospels was really surprisingly good. “Rum thing,” he went on. “All that stuff ….. about the Dying God. Rum thing. It almost looks as if it had really happened once.”
J. John reflects on Cumbria ‘Rampage’
One of the great errors of the modern West has been to deny, despite abundant evidence, the fact that all human beings are flawed in the area of morality. We are all ‘sinners’ and only grace keeps evil in check.